Tuesday, October 7, 2008

I wasn't going to make this cake. I did everything in my power to keep myself from making this cake. You see, after the Apple Cake, and the White Chocolate Cookies, and the Snickerdoodles and the Molasses Cookies (I had to taste them before I sent them to the soldiers to make sure they were okay!) I was feeling like I was on a bit of a perpetual sugar high. But then I saw this and this and this, and all of the other beautiful pictures of this amazingly delicious looking dessert, and I decided that I just could not resist.

Big Mistake. For me, this week's Tuesday with Dorie turned into a Tuesday Disaster. It started out simply enough--I made the cake first, and decided that as a concession to my healthier side, I would just do 1/3 of a batch. Instead of baking it in a springform pan as recommended by Dorie, I made cupcakes. Then, it was on to the caramel. This is when things started getting dicey. I've successfully made caramel before, but today was just not my day. I burned the first batch, setting off the smoke alarm. Undeterred, I set out on a second batch. Everything was going smoothly until I miscalculated when dividing the heavy cream in three (I was never very good at algebra, okay?) and added way too little. Or at least I think that's what happened. Because about three seconds after taking my caramel off the stove, it was hard as a rock.

Yup that caramel is so hard that it is standing up by itself. I must say that the little caramel I was able to taste before it hardened was delicious, and the cake was good, too, so I'm sure that under normal circumstances, this is a great recipe. This week's pick was by Tammy of Wee Treats for Tammy, and you can find the recipe here.

You are too cute! Love the 1/3 caramel recipe turned spun sugar. he he he There surely have been a lot of busy little smoke detectors and smoke alarms doing double time this week, sounding off for caramel. AmyRuth

awwww sorry it didn't turn out. you should try it again. i always use a calculator when i scale down my recipe...otherwise i end up halving some things and not others ;) thanks for the linky love :) i'm flattered